Buy yourself a Christmas cookie/drink/whatever-your-poison-is and put it on Stardock's tab BigFish. You were correct.
solarwindstorm
original civ 3 was working fine. just purchased crusader. steam downloaded content. hangs in loading screen (after hitting green play button). checked some posts. uninstalled game about 5 times now. validated game (settings [next to green play button]->validate files) always says there is "1 file fail to validate and will be reacquired", which nevert seems to happen. never happens. cleared steam cache according to another post. no effect. turned off antivirus. no effect. moved from